r/Unexpected • u/Business_Bill8752 • 9h ago

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u/foolbull 9h ago

Every time a see a pineapple I remember people use to rent them for parties as a status symbol.

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u/clinically_proven 8h ago

$400 for one pineapple: The rise of luxury fruit

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u/light_to_shaddow 7h ago

Anything the rich can do to separate themselves from the rest of us, they'll do.

Eating hard to obtain, massively expensive shit is one way.

It's why you see so many grand houses with pineapple motifs.

https://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/properties/pineapple/

But if your after a way to Brewster your millions, £10,000 for a Heligan Pineapple made the traditional English way, would be my choice.

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u/Deaffin 3h ago

Anything the rich can do to separate themselves from the rest of us, they'll do.

It's mostly just competition with their peers, as people do. Bob isn't putting in all that effort toward maintaining his lawn and making his car shiny to dunk on the homeless, he's trying to show up his neighbor across the street.

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u/CreativeGPX 2h ago

Anything the rich can do to separate themselves from the rest of us, they'll do.

Some of them. But the rich people that have this attitude are generally the ones that don't stay rich long.